The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-07-14

VIII open ana unSC1nGed IlDerallty to
each and every comrade of the G.. A. r.
We assure you that nothing has oc-
CURED or is likely to occur that will
dampen in any way the fixed purpose
and desire of the citizens of st. Louis to
make the twenty-firSt annual encamp-
ment the most noted and successful
meeting in the history of the organiZa-
ton of the G. A. X. It has
been reported, and that report
has been industriously circulated in
some sections of the country, that the
committee, tWO-thirds of them are
members of the G. A. R., had invited
TO join in the parade of the G. a. Il.
on Tuesday, the 9th of September.
This statement has been made whether
for good OF bad purpose it is not neceS-
sary here to discuss in the teeth of a
resolution unanimously adopted by this
committee in March last declaring that
none but Grand Army Posts and
Grand Army men should be invited or
permitted to join in the parade. 1t has
also been reported and in many quarters
believed that the rates to be
charged by the hotels of st. Louis to
those attending the encampment are
to be excessive or eXtortiOnate. We
assure you that nothing of the kind
will be permitted by the citizens of st.
Louis or this committee, but that every
thing possible that can will be done to
make every visitor and delegate COM
Portable generally and most Hospitality
entertained. You have been furnished
with the official action taken by the
committee touching the question, that
have provoked in some quarters wha
to the committee seems unfait
and unjust criticism. In the lighr
of these proceedings we ask if tht
time has not come when some official
action on the part of the Commander in
Chief or the Council of Administration,
should be taken in reference to the re-
ports which, if not corrected by official
authority, will continue to initiate
against the success of the encampment.
We are ready to receive and will take
care of 100, 900 veteran soldiers at the
encampment, and we sincerely hope to
see that number in line on the day of
the grand parade. l have the honor to
be, General, with respect, your obedient
servant, d. p. GRIER,
Chairman.
From the minutes of the meeting of
the executive committee of the COun-
Gil of Administration, held at Madison,
Wisconsin, July 8, 1887:
Resolved, that the executive commit
tee of the Council of Administration
have considered the communication of
the committee of arrangements on the
part of the citizens of st. Louis, having
i'll charge the reception and entertain
ment to the commander in chief. In
view of the many gross fnisrepresenta-
tiOns that have gone abroad touching
the action of that committee
and its relations to the COM
mander in chief and the Council of
Administration, we commend that a
general order be issued embOdying such
communication. We suggest that on
said order the comrades be assured
that the work of the committee and the
officers of the national encampment
have been in full accord. They have
been and are now working harmoni-
ously together to make the twenty-first
national encampment one of the
greatest and most enjoyable in the his
tory of the Order. We also consider it
alike due to the G.. A. r. and the st.
Louis committee that the Com
mander-in-Chief shall announce
that all statements which may have
been made by any one concerning the
manner of conducting the reception of
the encampment or of the contemplated
presence on or in absence from the
city of st. Louis of any particular
person OF persons on that occasion
have not been based upon any official
action on the part of the officers of the
G. A. Il. who alone have authority to
speak for the national encamp-
ment. When it is not in
session, neither the letter nor
the resolution was necessary to
convince the Commander-in-Ch Chief that
the purpose of the st. Louis Committee
and Executive Committee have from
the first been in line with his own,
namely to make the Twenty-first Ma
tional Encampment pronounced sue
cess, but many who have been miSled
by an unauthorized clamor will be glad
to be assured officially that nothing has
occurred or is liable to occur to mar the
festivities of that occasion or diminish
the warmth of general hospitality
by the citizens of st. Louis. Assur-
ances are ample that the hotel accommo-
| daitons for members of the encamp-
| ment will be furnished at the usual
rates by applying to Capt. Lloyd G..
Harris, chairman of the hotel commit
| tee, Lindell Hotel, St. Louis, by COM
mand of Lucius Fairchild, Commander
in Chief. (Signed.) E. b. GRAY,
Adjutant General.
An institution to SwiudIe EnaIGrants
NEW YORK, July Sat meeting
of the Emigrant Commissioners to-day
Commissioner Stephenson produced {
German paper published in Ohio an(
called attention to an advertisement
in it of the American Emigrant Com
pany, 80 State Street, New York, z. o
box 1040, r. Jeanson, agent. The ad
vertisement solicited deposits of saw
ingS and offered to transact all kinds o
financial business. The COMMISSIONS
said his attention had been called t.
the case of an emigrant who had de
posted s., 600 with the company, an,
who, when he asked for his money. re
ceived only part in cash and the res
in Missouri bonds. The COMMISSIONS
called at the Office of the company an
when he asked for the President ma
named Warner presented himself. II
afterwards said he was not the Pres
dent, but only manager. This ma
said that up to December last the In
stitution was known as the America
Emigrant Company of Hartford, Com
At that time Mr.. Bartholomew, who ha
charge of its business skipped out wit
the assets and the concern was bough
by j. C. Slavery and James Callahan
Mr.. Slavery subsequently told him, til
Commissioner said, that the compan
had a charter, but diligent scare
failed to show any record of it. NJ
Savery admitted that their present Ii;
bilities were $3.50 600, and that the on
security depositors had for their none
was the personal security of J. C. Sa'
cry. This sort of a thing, the Con
missioner said, had been going on fl
q years, and he asked that the Board +
q scind its permission to enter Cast
Garden on the plea of helping the EN-
grants from all persons except agen
of railroads and steamers. COmmi
sioner Stephenson also spoke of anoth
similar institution by o. r. st. Jerom
: at "a State Street, in which deposito
had no security.
n Declaring an Extra Dividend.
= Boston, July 1.-THE directors
!. the Bell Telephone Company will me
{ tomorrow and will, it is expected,
II clare an extra dividend of 1904 .
g cent. 1t is also stated authoritative